Cary v. Everett

This is an action of trover for the recovery of the value of 400 bushels of wheat. Defendants pleaded the general issue. It appears that the plaintiffs, on September 16, 1890, commenced suit in attachment before a justice of the peace against Lewis J. Hadden, and on the same day attached 20 acres of wheat that had been sown by Hadden on his wife’s farm, in Wayne township, Casscounty, and upon which Hadden resided. No personal service of the attachment was had upon the defendant, but the officer having the Avrit filed a notice in the town clerk’s office that he had attached the wheat on that…